OPRD VOLUNTEER ABUSE

OREGON PARKS & RECREATION DEPARTMENT

INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTATION
In early 2025, I served as an unpaid volunteer at Honeyman State Park. What began as a routine volunteer assignment became two months of systematic psychological pressure, coercive tactics, and institutional retaliation, followed by dismissal and expulsion from all Oregon State Parks — all documented with audio and video evidence.

THIS ARCHIVE CENTERS AN OPEN LETTER
TO THE DIRECTOR OF OREGON STATE PARKS — LISA SUMPTION

I entered the state parks system anticipating alignment —
to protect the commons,
to hold space with integrity,
to support the land,
and to give freely without ownership.
That was the offer.
What I found instead was systematic abuse by those entrusted to supervise me.
This archive documents every decision they made when given the opportunity to stop.
On August 25, 2025, I sent a comprehensive Open Letter to Director Lisa Sumption.
It acknowledged her accomplishments.
It documented systemic abuse with evidence.
It named the power imbalance plainly.
It called for institutional protections for volunteers.
It outlined a clear path forward.
She responded within twelve hours.
Her reply:
  • Formally acknowledged receipt.
  • Offered no specific commitments.
  • Deferred responsibility to "appropriate channels."
  • Upheld institutional protection over volunteer accountability.
Earlier that week, I filed a Public Records Request.
I received an automated acknowledgment, then a phone call attempting to narrow its scope.
I declined and requested all further communication in writing.
Oregon Parks & Recreation responded 90 days later —
only after I issued a formal demand for compliance and filed a complaint with the Governor's office.
They claimed they had responded on August 29, 2025.
They provided a screenshot of an internal portal system as proof.
No email was sent to notify me.
No letter was mailed.
I was never told this portal system existed.
I had no access credentials.
For 90 days, they remained silent while I waited at the email and mailing address listed in my request.
When finally pressed, they provided a cost estimate in the tens of thousands of dollars.
I withdrew the request — their response had become the evidence.
Let me be very plainspoken about this:
Humans did this to another human being.
Not policies. Not procedures. Humans.
Humans with names, with faces, with the capacity to choose differently.
They knew what they were doing while they were doing it.
They felt the weight of their choices in real time.
They are responsible — whether they are willing to admit that to themselves or not.
Every person documented in this archive had the power to stop this.
Every person chose not to.
Every person who abused their position remains in their position.
No investigations occurred.
No protections were implemented.
No one was held accountable.
Those choices are now permanent.
They don't fade with time.
They don't disappear because they refuse to act.
They don't get absolved by silence.
—
Samuel White
Former Oregon State Parks Volunteer
December 1, 2025
THIS IS THE MAP. THIS IS THE PATTERN. THIS IS THE MIRROR.
This archive is not for revenge.
It is for those who have been told they imagined it.
It is for those about to walk into something similar.
It is for the future, when denial no longer holds.
It does not ask for apology.
It does not ask for repair.
It exists so that the next distortion cannot pretend it was the first.
This archive is open source and permanent.
The complete source code, documentation, and evidence structure are publicly available on GitHub. This ensures the archive cannot be silenced, cannot be altered without detection, and cannot disappear.
If this domain is ever taken down, the repository can be forked, rebuilt, and redeployed by anyone. The evidence is distributed. The accountability is permanent.
Other documentation projects are welcome to fork this codebase for their own institutional accountability archives. Contact me if you need assistance.